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DEVELOPMENTALLY CHALLENGED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does developmentally challenged mean?
• DEVELOPMENTALLY CHALLENGED (noun)
The noun DEVELOPMENTALLY CHALLENGED has 1 sense:
1. people collectively who are mentally retarded
Familiarity information: DEVELOPMENTALLY CHALLENGED used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• DEVELOPMENTALLY CHALLENGED (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
People collectively who are mentally retarded
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
developmentally challenged; mentally retarded; retarded
Context example:
he started a school for the retarded
Hypernyms ("developmentally challenged" is a kind of...):
people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)
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